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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. The biggest ones I see are focusing on keywords for search optimization, tags, and descriptions. Now, there is opportunity in search optimization, however it pales in comparison to the recommendation engine from YouTube. Your paid YouTube strategy.

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How to Start a Cleaning Business

Up and Running

Because you’ll be entering an already-saturated market, you will need to figure out a way to differentiate your service offerings. Typically, domestic cleaning business operations need very little upfront investment and as such, can bootstrap their business idea, or get started as a part-time operation. Don’t skip your market research.

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